I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without my persuading them. That's all the powers of the President amount to.

Today, America has become one of the most powerful forces for good on earth. We must keep it so.

This generation, raised on "Eyewitness News," conditioned by the instant replay, and spared the illumination that comes from tedious historical study, tends to be even more ahistorical than most.

The Marshall Plan will go down in history as one of America's greatest contributions to the peace of the world.

Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place.

There are always a lot of people so afraid of rocking the boat that they stop rowing. We can never get ahead that way.

If you can't beat 'em, confuse 'em.